because of overcrowding in many hospitals. and a lot of hot air trying to beat the world record for crossing the channel. and coming up on bbc news: we ve got the latest from the second round of the masters, where the weather has been far more friendly to the players, including england s lee westowood, at augusta. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. russia, an ally of syria, has condemned a missile strike authorised by president trump on a syrian government target. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from us warships in the mediterranean at the shayrat air base from where mr trump said this week s deadly chemical weapons attack in northern syria was launched. in a moment, we ll get the latest on russia s response and how the strike could affect the long war in syria. but, first, here s our north america editorjon sopel and a warning, his report does contain some distressing images. it was after dark on the east coast of america and before the sun had risen
Right now this is shifting his attention to the syrian regime and we haven t heard necessarily much about isis in the last few days. the expectation somehow the attention of the united states now will not be solely focused on the terrorist group? well, the irony here or the complicated nature of the situation here really comes home when you consider that the united states, in fact, has conducted thousands of air strikes against isis targets since 2014 in syria alone. i think the number is around 8,000 air strikes. we re talking about, we re to concussion on just one cruise missile strike on one syrian regime airbase which it s not clear if this will make much of a difference. yes the united states is very much involved, for instance in the battle to drive isis out of mosul. american troops are on the ground in syria, supporting the